Lions or foxes

heroes or lackeys?

Harald G. Skilling

3-22

T. G. Masaryk

the problem of a small nation

George J. Kovtun

25-40

On the emergence of Czechoslovakia

Jaroslav Opat

41-52

Beneš between East and West

Walter Ullmann

55-61

Slovaks and Czechs

an uneasy coexistence

Edita Bosák

65-81

Castles on the landscape

Czech-German relations

Ronald M. Smelser

82-104

Magyars and Carpatho-rusyns

105-129

Political culture

Continuity and discontinuity

Frederick M. Barnard

133-153

From capitalism to socialism

Radoslav Selucký

154-173

Traditions of Czech literature

curses and blessings

Igor Hájek

177-195

Slovak literature

loyal, dissident and Émigré

Peter Petro

196-210

A neglected generation

Václav Havel

211-214